Margaret Pendergrass

Margaret Baldwin (Senior Lecturer, Coordinator of General Education)

M.F.A. Theatre Arts (Playwriting), University of Iowa
B.A. English/Modern Studies, University of Virginia
Areas of Emphasis: General Education, Script Analysis, Performance Composition, Adaption, Ensemble Performance 

Margaret Baldwin, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, has produced her plays and ensemble theatre works throughout the US. Her most recent play, Night Blooms, received its world premiere at Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta, September 2010, directed by Karen Robinson, with dramaturgy by Lisa Adler. Night Blooms was named one of the top plays of 2010 by both the Atlanta Journal Constitution and ArtsCriticATL.com; Margaret and Night Blooms were featured in an interview for American Theatre Magazine (October 2010). Developmental workshops and readings of Night Blooms include Horizon's New South Play Festival (2006-9), Orlando Shakespeare Festival's PlayFest, the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, MN, Working Title Playwrights, and the KSU New Works and Ideas Festival. Margaret and Horizon Theatre received a National AT&T Onstage Award for the world premiere of her play Her Little House, named one of the Best New Plays of 2004 by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Her family plays include Tom Thumb the Great, commissioned and produced by Georgia Shakespeare (2008) and developed in collaboration with the KSU Department of TPS&D; and Alice Through the Wonderglass, commissioned and produced by Synchronicity Performance Group (2003). Other recent works, You Always Go Home, Monkey King, and Roland's Song: A War Story were commissioned and produced by the KSU Department of Theatre, Performance Studies and Dance. Monkey King, funded in part by the Coca-Cola Foundation, traveled to China for a festival at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Margaret's solo works, The Wet Nurse Sings and The Deepest Part of the Creek (2003), were published in Monologues for Women edited by the Playwrights' Center. Her collaborative theatre work in development with Out of Hand Theater, Without Which Nothing, was featured at Emory University's Brave New Works Festival (April 2011).

Margaret holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Playwrights' Center, and Working Title Playwrights. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Paul Pendergrass, and serves as Lecturer and Interim General Education Coordinator for Theatre and Performance Studies in the KSU Department of Theatre and Performance Studies.